Quotes about Retreating

A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The small retreat is probably due to the dollar coming back a bit.

Tobin Gorey

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn

Everything that's happening in Marietta today is the result of their goals four years ago. The vision of the goals crafted at the retreat will be presented to the public for input.

Matthew Daily

You see the shells coming in from opposition forces as well as the Taliban. The poor can only retreat, and not take care of the crops.

Ahmad Shah Massood

This is very important and exciting research because it provides compelling physical evidence for the impact of louse-borne diseases on Grand Army troops during Napoleon's invasion of, and retreat from, Russia.

Robert Peterson

There's an opportunity that exists in the original, made-for-cable series space, and it seems to us that cable networks are hungry for programming. The creation of Warner Horizon allows us to move aggressively into cable (but) doesn't represent a retreat from our traditional network production activities.

Peter Roth

It is obvious that the government is on the retreat so we have to keep pushing to the end. Today is already a great success because the turn-out is as big as last week's.

Francois Chereque

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

There is no way Megawati and her party would retreat.

Umar Juoro

We're absolutely moving in the wrong direction. Our policy is retreat from the ocean, not building closer.

Carolyn Boltin

The first time that we sang 'Fire and Rain' this summer, when we were on our retreat … we made it through the song. But when we got to the end was when it brought back all the memories of her and what had happened.

Sarah Graham

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Norman Mailer

Nature is sending us messages. The idea of repeatedly throwing federal dollars at rebuilding the infrastructure in some of these places is crazy. There are certain areas where we simply should retreat.

Rob Young

It's a place I enjoy retreating when I don't have time to go farther into the mountains.

John Fielder

Players like Monty don't retreat, they are solid under pressure and don't try too hard to force things and wait for the birdies to come along.

Richard Greenberg

They way these polar pits are retreating is absolutely astounding.

Jack Mustard

The local market continued to post losses as it was affected by the retreat of Wall Street and the Japanese market.

Castor Pang

Our buyers want the urban feeling and they want everything at their doorstep. Their homes are a retreat and they do a lot of socializing in the neighborhood.

Marilyn Andersen

Retreat usually leads to defeat.

Ben Manski

We don't have a real government, and we don't have a real authority to apply law. In the power vacuum, people retreat to their religions.

Hassan Bazzaz

The best thing for the market this morning is probably the fact that gas and crude oil are retreating.

Mike Driscoll

Further evidence of stability in the housing market and solid retail activity could prompt a rethink of MPC easing risk now priced in, allowing the euro to retreat sharply against the pound.

Daniel Katzive

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Christopher Lasch

It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat, ... goes across the islands very quickly.

Orrin Pilkey

This past weekend we had a retreat with the board members and came up with a business plan to see where we are ... if we can move forward or have to close down.

Marcy Anderson

The fire doubled back on them. They tried to retreat on foot, but were overtaken.

Mark Blythe

It's like a retreat. They don't have family telling them what to do, there's no hovering and they talk about whatever they want to talk about.

Cindy Smith

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis

We're excited about it. We were on our way to Epworth (a coastal Georgia United Methodist retreat) when she came up with it.

Mark Shelnutt

[Treadwell recorded this truth in his book,] Among Grizzlies, ... pivoted on its back paws and bolted in a violent retreat. ? For me, the encounter was like looking into a mirror. I gazed into the face of a kindred soul, a being that was potentially lethal, but in reality was just as frightened as I was.

Jewel Palovak

The degree of retreat was greater than ever before.

Ted Scambos

Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.

Jane Taylor

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are very active glaciers. They all end up in the ocean, discharge icebergs and are very dynamic. One you push them a little bit out of equilibrium, they start retreating very fast.

Eric Rignot

[Talk of a new approach to abortion by Democratic officials has frustrated activists, who see it as a retreat on an issue that has been central to the party's core coalition.] When you say this to Democratic leaders, they deny this is happening, ... So in a way we feel like we're fighting a mirage.

Eleanor Smeal